#useful

Anything you cannot relinquish when it has outlived its usefulness possesses you, and in this materialistic age a great many of us are possessed by our possessions. ↗

— Peace Pilgrim

#anything #cannot #great #many #materialistic

Cigarettes are an instant signifier in culture. It punctuates a joke, or puts that extra zing on a punch line. I like them as a prop. I think it can be really useful for character and texture and contrast and all of that. ↗

— Martha Plimpton

#cigarettes #contrast #culture #extra #i

Anyway, in my writing I've always been interested in finding places to stand, and I've found it very useful to have a direct experience of what I'm writing about. ↗

— Michael Pollan

#always #anyway #been #direct #direct experience

I think it's useful, as a famous person, to have as little separation between the perception of you and how you really are - because otherwise I'd be sitting here thinking I'm keeping secrets, and wondering when you're going to find out. ↗

— Daniel Radcliffe

#between #famous #famous person #find #going

It was extremely useful to grow up in front of the camera. It gives the camera no significance. I think it helped me have perspective on things. The attraction that Hollywood can have, I feel like I'm over that. Instead I just concentrate on acting. ↗

— Giovanni Ribisi

#attraction #camera #concentrate #extremely #feel

If a commodity were in no way useful, - in other words, if it could in no way contribute to our gratification, - it would be destitute of exchangeable value, however scarce it might be, or whatever quantity of labour might be necessary to procure it. ↗

— David Ricardo

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Our biggest challenge is to eliminate the popular perception that economists don't have anything useful to say. ↗

— Mark Zandi

#biggest #biggest challenge #challenge #economists #eliminate

In the old days when people invented a new function they had something useful in mind. ↗

— Henri Poincare

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A slave has but one master; an ambitious man has as many masters as there are people who may be useful in bettering his position. ↗

— Jean de la Bruyere

#his #man #many #master #masters

The beautiful cannot be the way to what is useful, or to what is good, or to what is holy; it leads only to itself. ↗

— Victor Cousin

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